in 1936 when roosevelt was running for reelection with double digit unemployment, roosevelt received 523 electoral votes and the republican received 8. now, that is a beating. that is one big beating. 523-8. and it just blew the republican party away, it put them in a quandary, in a dilemma that they have had ever since. some of them said, well, maybe we need to back this federal giving stuff. someone said maybe we could outgive the democrats, someone else said, no, you can never do that, but someone else said, well, maybe we ought to try. landon criticized the aaa, hey s this stupid or what, we're paying people not to produce. and crowds would cheer in boston, and then he'd go to farm country and they'd say, are you taking away our program? and he'd say, no, i'm going to administer it better. i'm going to do better at administering it. well, now, the voters have a choice if you're a farmer. do you vote for the guy who gave you this nice subsidy or a guy who says i'll do it even better? well, the proof is in the vote. landon was governor of the state of kansas. roosevelt carried kans

you are looking at roosevelt reserves, roosevelt monuments. he put aside 240, almost 240 million acres of wild america said now is people are talking about environmentalism and corrine movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day who have absorbed darwin and to it understood biology and understood bird send migratory patterns and understood mating habits of deer and elk and antelope and actually did something. he is a president who in his young days shot the buffalo and he is the president to created wichita mountains in oklahoma reserved for buffalo. c-span: one of the things you have seen throughout the center are stuffed animals. >> guest: roosevelt was trained in the art of taxidermy. in fact as a young boy his teacher in new york was a man named john bell, who had been audubon's students so there is a linkage between john james audubon and roosevelt and young tr had asthma. he was very sickly but from really eight years old on march he was obsessed with birds. he created his o

roosevelt and the constitution. he took questions. >> our summer reading tour continues with burt solomon, his new book is called fdr versus the conversation. what's the story you tell? >> guest: the story is about the court fight of 1937 when the supreme court had topperred pillar after pillar of the new deal, and franklin roosevelt decided to deal with it. and the way he dealt with it directly, it was to expand the size of the court -- to propose it from nine justices to 15 so that the court would re that the way he and the majority of the electorate wanted them to rule. >> host: what was the reaction? >> guest: explosion all over. huge amounts of emotion. you hear about all the town-haul meetings on health care. very much the same kind of thing was going on. there was the most dramatic, most emotional fight that they country had been in since theologer of -- the league of nations, and many people were for it because the court was knocking down pieces of the new deal that people in address -- distress needed, and

>> -- in new orleans. >> roosevelt was very worried.the state of louisiana, he created this barrier island, protection island. it was for birds, but it was also to protect the city of new orleans. it is big legacy that i write about is trying to champion green space in the united states, making sure that people do not live in toxic conditions, keeping the river is clean and making sure we have fish in the streams and federal wildlife preserves. today, we have over 100 national wildlife preserves in the united states, and that is the theodore roosevelt's big legacy. he began with birds, but started rehabilitating everything from buffalo to its dock. tavis: we will talk to ken burns about his wonderful series on national parks. i am told that you are one of the people that has put in the president's year that he mailed to visit the national parks and we will talk about the time cannot be much better that he visit the national parks this summer. what part of theodore roosevelt's commitment, his legacy do you think that president obama all

franklin rooseveltided he would deal with this. the way that he dealt with directly was to expand the size of the court to propose to expand it from nine justices from nine to 15, so that there would rule the way he and the majority wanted them to. host: what was the result? guest: explosion all over. there were huge amounts of emotion. we read about the town hall meetings recently and very much the same kind of thing was going on then. the most dramatic fight -- it was the most dramatic fight since the league of nations. many people were for it because the court was knocking down pieces of the new deal the people in distress in the great depression needed. but there were many opposed to living out not just the usual suspects. businesses like the court the way it was, and so did conservatives, but there were many who got worried about franklin roosevelt having too much power. this was the time of dictatorships all over the world. many democracies had given way to dictatorships because of the stresses on

roosevelt, there must be a lot of stuff, there was a big feud between taft and roosevelt.so i found my way to the original. in the second two volumes, there were no ellipses ease on the page but things had been left out. i found my way to the originals, but was there and larges what we know about what went on in the taft white house. archie butt was with taft from morning until he went to bed at night so he knew the stories. so that was wonderful. the other thing wanted to tell you about, when i started working on a book about the roosevelt, his life after the white house, i wanted to write -- he was only 50 when he left the white house, he was the youngest president, the youngest ex-president, jfk was the youngest elected president but teddy roosevelt became president when mckinley was assassinated and he was two weeks shy of his 40 third birthday. he is the youngest ex-president, only 50. what would happen to a man who had power once he didn't have it any more? the existing biography of theodore roosevelt don't cover this period very much with the exception of the time h

his latest book, "the wilderness warrior," looks at teddy roosevelt. also tonight, aribute to the pele of new orleans from jsh charles. it is simple as helping rebuild the city. h single efft is helping rebuild the city. we are glad that yojoined us. t our book at new orlns four years aer katrincoming out. -- o look at orleans four years aer katrina comingup. >> there areo many things that wal-mart is looking forward to doing, like helping peopleive better. but mostly, we'reelping build stroer communities and relationships. wi your help, the best is yet to come. >> nationwide insurance prouy supports "tavismiley." tavis and nationwide, working together to impre financial teracy and the enomic emwerment that comes with it. >> ♪ nationwe is on your si ♪ >> and by conibutions to your pbs station from vwers like you. thank you. [captioni made possible by kcet public televisi] tavis: douglasbrinkley is a noted historian and best-selling author who look at hurricane katrina calledthe great deluge." his ne book is called "the wildness warrior." he joi us tnig

>> yes. >> jimmy: is it "roosevelt" or "roosevelt? >> i don't know. "roosevelt," "roosevelt?"velt." >> jimmy: i say it too. anyone else say "roosevelt," or just me from earlier? >> that's the old school one. >> jimmy: that's the old school me. i'm a new guy now, man. >> jimmy: that's it. roosevelt. think about "heavy sitter." it's pretty good. >> "heavy sitter" is fantastic. >> jimmy: yeah. >> "heavy sitter" is fantastic. >> jimmy: you go to roosevelt island. >> yes. >> jimmy: and -- it was an island where they used to put, like, crazy people. >> yeah, well, they still do, i think, man. >> jimmy: really? >> something's is going on out there. >> jimmy: it was, like, typhoid mary or something. >> something weird is going on out there. >> jimmy: you have to take a weird -- >> you take a tram car. >> jimmy: -- a cool little, like, air-tight capsule. >> yes, you take an -- >> jimmy: and, if you've never seen it, it's really cool looking. >> it's very cool. but the island itself -- it's 1972 there still. >> jimmy: really? do people live there? >> i think so. i couldn't really tell.

roosevelt was elected in part by the farm vote. he put henry wallace, a figure they knew as agriculture secretary and they made a bunch of fools they also put a tax on middle man on the theory that would help the farmers and middle men got in the way of efficiency rather than help deficiency contrary to what we think today and then there was an analogous beast in the business world, the national recovery administration that a bunch of philosophy and copying a little bit britain, copy and definitely the german cartel system, shom bader noticed that as in the book also what stalin was doing. you want to recall stalin at the time they didn't know he was a monster or at least not so much and very naive they copied stalin and in the book i trace how some of the characters go to the soviet union and are boiled over bye stalin and get six hours with him and they came back and you see them especially rex tugwell either from fascist italy or stolen. >> host: the administration in the mentioned in the book based dustin national retardation a

he knew what he believed and went in government and loved roosevelt and roosevelt loved him. this is also about policy agony. it is about when you go in government and do your best and are not appreciated and the thing produced is not what you planned and nobody cares. he was a columbia professor and got leave to go in government. columbia waved him by a very ostentatiously, come back, we love you. he got there and worked in the agriculture department. he became the head of something called the resettlement administration where the move people around as in john steinbeck, a lot of poverty, dust bowl and so on and he saw that a lot of the projects were not really working. some worked, maybe fertilizer worked, farms wouldn't have to be sold and foreclosed upon. a lot of it didn't work and he had deep ambivalence. he planned communities, greenbelt maryland, he cozied up to eleanor who also appreciated them. they drank new york state champagne which roosevelt thought was awful and probably was. >> host: i think the market has proven that. .. and that they had resisted the manager

that is what roosevelt did.e doubled in national debt from 1932 to 1940, and we still have 20% unemployment. that is what we did in the 1930 's, and the danger is we are doing it again today. host: young americans for freedom. they tend to be republican younger people. the birther. he concludes by saying, is this an orchestra did campaign to delegitimize the obama presidency? is the fact that he is a first african-american president a factor? some people cannot accept the fact that he has won our election as commander in chief. guest: i do not think it is a question of race, but ideas. his opponents represent ideas that have been floating around for several decades with black- and-white on both sides. there was a recent editorial from the black economist that was critical to president obama. the young america's foundation represents the idea that liberty -- if we increase liberty, we increase freedom, and if we follow the constitution, we will be a better society. that is the same thing at hillsdale college, we

leonard wood back in 1901 came and said that president roosevelt. that sounds so presumption's today we label this chapter the 42 page chapter. we label it hastening cuba's transition which is a euphemism for getting rid of their current government and is installing a space government. que let me conclude. what can we safely to collect these countries down there and the caribbean and when we can't neglect them, second, we should uplift them, we have the obligation to lift them up, and third, the reason we have an obligation is because they are a retarded branch of the human species. what are these three believes tell about the years that lie ahead? it says the best wager would be that eventually some cubans probably the next generation will become convinced by them not pinging by the embargo and accept a little uplifting. they will agree to do it our way. so after we've got the right class in office that allegedly is democratic, then you can expect to see an army of contractors from the u.s. agency for international development, the national endowme

abc2 news roosevelt leftwich live as senator ben cardin prepares for who knows what? >> reporter: that's the thing, who knows what is going to happen? there have been angry protests all over the country as people oppose the plan calling it probably one of the worst mistakes in the country's history are expected to be here tonight along with people who say it will be good for the country. both sides are expected to clash tonight. here's why. let's look at video of some other things that have gone on. as you can see angry people upset with the president's plan to change health care have been turning out in meetings all over the country along with people that support the plan. but the anger has been directed at what many people are saying is going to be a very expensive attempt to what they call socialize medicine. already many people are upset with the format of cardin's town meeting tonight at 7:00. they say he's only allowing people on his mailing list to ask questions and speak. the president says he hopes to talk directly to the public but many say the meetings are

roosevelt leftwich is live at towson university with what to expect. >> reporter: what you can expect pretty much is that it's going to be a doozy. here's why -- president obama's plan to change around the health care system is drawing fire from both sides of the issue, even moso there's an -- more so there's anger at what many are calling the biggest mistake in the country's history. protesters have been showing up at the meeting outraged by what many are calling the administration's attempts to "socialize medicine." many say that cardin is only allowing people on his mailing list to ask people and speak and not people critical of the measure. the president says he wants members of congress to hold these meetings directly to talk to the public, however, many saying their voice is not being heard. here's a meeting in another part of the country. >> my biggest fear is this is going to get rammed down our throats. >> i think we should be able to make our own medical decisions. i don't want the government making decisions for me or my children or grandchildren. >> reporter: this meeting

she the author of the new book, teddy roosevelt, wilderness warrior.oug brinkley, good morning. >> good morning to you, harry. >> why was roosevelt so determined to preserve some of america's great, last great places? >> well, as a kid he had asthma and he grew up in new york city and he found the nature secure -- >> he went to the adirondacks, later his mother and wife grew both died on valentine's day, he took a train ride to the badlands of north dakota and wrote a trilogy of books about the window earns there and decided that scenic wonders is what distinguished united states from europe. >> true, england has westminster abbey but we had yellowstone. >> they has the louvre, we had yellowstone. >> what did you talk about on the trip to west. >> there was a group of historians he had at the white house and i got to talk a little bit about my book on tr, the wilderness warrior and i went to the interior department and got to speak with secretary salazar, who is accompanying the president on to these national parks and they are just very keene, i think

part of the book deals with a conflict he had with teddy roosevelt. he has this very personalized, rhetorically violent conflict with teddy roosevelt, part of the conflict that ford represented to republicans, that roosevelt represented at all the isolationist republicans represented a third way, a threat that many saw as bordering on some form of socialist pacifism. >> i was wondering about the did -- gendered division of labor in the factory and in the city's itself and also, unrelated question, a utopian communities outside the united states with megalomaniac leaders? >> there are a lot of different utopian -- jonestown comes to mind because it is the northern part of the amazon basin. there are others as well. american history is filled with these attempts to deal with, in some ways, the problem of expansion by trying to establish these utopian communities. that is one particular example of it. as far as the gender division of labor, it was meant in terms of the -- carved out the jungle. ford sent mostly men down in terms of administrators, he als

i mean, al the way to theodore roosevelt? >> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states a the ste funeral for the king of englandat the beginning of the 20t entury. and during his funeral, you h all of the crowned heads of rope just beforethe outbreak of worldar i. and it washere that theore roosevelt prively came to the conclusion that wa was coming, d of course he was right. >> he was. thomashalen, thank you very much for joini us tonight. >> you're welcom >> there's anotr incident invoing americans ing held in this se by an. ey were said to be hiking in the kurdish regio of northern iraq fourays ago wen they parently wanderedcross the border and then we arrested near t town of mry ban by irian authorities, toy iranian television swed pictures o joshua fattal o oregon andhane and sarah schoud. >>> in afghastan, a sca in theapital of kabul day. ju over two weeks bfore that country's poid presidential election. officials said at least eit rocks slammed into the cityf daybreak, at least one of them heading from fir

i feel that we should keep that open and president teddy roosevelt negotiated with cuba and i thought that was ours. why do we have to build and put money into other prisons and get these terrorist killers on our soil? and i respectfully ask you, why you voted to close it? i really am befuddled. thank you. >> first of all guantanamo bay is a symbol throughout the world of mistreatment of prisoners. now, my friends, it is. let me just tell you a story real quick and we all have the right to disagree. i was in a prison camp in iraq with senator lindsay graham who's an air force lawyer, we arranged to meet with a former

lincoln, garfield, mckinley, teddy roosevelt was shot at, fdr was shot at and they shot the mayor of chicago by accident. harry truman was shot at. jack kennedy was killed. jerry ford was shot at twice. ronald reagan was almost killed had it not been for the secret service agent, he would have been dead. we live in a dangerous society when it comes to elected officials. let's not make it more dangerous. it's a free country. are you armed? >> this is d.c. >> are you a birther? >> i was born. >> do you believe the president was born in this country? >> i have no opinion one way or the other. >> you're not part of that crowd, are you? just tell me. >> i'm a second amendment advocate. >> but you're not part of that crowd you're not one of those people that doubts. are you one of those people that doubts he's a legitimate american? >> i'm not taking the bait. i'm just an advocate of the second. >> do you think he's a legitimate american? >> do i think the president.

i mean, all the way to theodore roosevelt? >> well, theodore roosevelt represented the united states a the state funeral for the king of england at the beginning of the 20th century. and during his funeral, you had all of the crowned heads of europe just before the outbreak of world war i. and it was there that theodore roosevelt privately came to the conclusion that war was coming, and of course he was right. >> he was. thomas whalen, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> you're welcome. >>> there's another incident involving americans being held in this case by iran. they were said to be hiking in the kurdish region of northern iraq four days ago when they apparently wandered across the border and then were arrested near the town of merry ban by iranian authorities, today iranian television showed pictures of joshua fattal of oregon and shane and sarah schoud. >>> in afghanistan, a scare in the capital of kabul today. just over two weeks before that country's poid presidential election. officials said at least eight

i believe eleanor roosevelt was very sympathetic to the jews and even tried to influence franklin roosevelt. did she have any role in this era with truman? >> well, she did. she was a u.n. delegate. and one or two or three u.n. delegates who was against what was going on in the u.n. so i would say that she did play a very important role and she was also close to truman. uman really did listen to her. and was influenced by her. and her position was, if you want the new u.n. to succd, how can you turn against partion when this what the world has voted for? so that was her position and she really did push this with truman. >> on the other hand, publicly, she was supposedly chairman of one -- during this period when epstein called the state department were engineering and in his words a big conspiracy to destroy partition, and frieda put together a huge dinner rally with promint speakers who were going to come to protest the efforts of the state department to turn back partition. and eleanor roosevelt was supped to be chairman of the meeting. and the ads were put out, stopped the state departme

just take a chance it would have been roosevelt. >> i understand you actually met roosevelt. could you tell the story? >> i did. one of the lucky ones. i lived around the corner from ebbets field, which was having. and at one point he made a visit to brooklyn during one of his campaigns. they opened up a metal door that allowed large trucks to come in and in came his car and opened -- an open car with him leaning back among the full bid tops and shaking hands as they went around and around ebbets field with a ton of kids running around and so on. but i evidently was faster than i can recall. i reached out of hand, he reached out of hand and to this day my right hand is a little stronger and a little older than my left hand. >> you have drawn fdr many times. there is some in the book. >> there are several in the book. i go after -- i use the biographical material in the articles, and whether it was roosevelt on the question of black relationships and which jim-crow is sitting on his arm, if there is negative things on my hero's i go after them, too. and if there is something w

they proved that even republican nominees can quote franklin roosevelt to their own purpose. the grand old party thinks it has found a great new trick, but 40 years ago an earlier generation of republicans attempted the same trick. and franklin roosevelt himself replied, "most republican leaders have bitterly fought and blocked the forward surge of average men and women in their pursuit of happiness. let us not be deluded that overnight those leaders have suddenly become the friends of average men and women." "you know," he continued, "very few of us are that gullible." and four years later when the republicans tried that trick again, franklin roosevelt asked "can the old guard pass itself off as the new deal? i think not. we have all seen many marvelous stunts in the circus, but no performing elephant could turn a handspring without falling flat on its back." the 1980 republican convention was awash with crocodile tears for our economic distress, but it is by their long record and not their recent words that you shall know them. the same republicans who are talking about the

he was a cousin of the roosevelt. the roosevelt name was very elevated at that point. people were looking to him when he became governor, they assumed it was likely that he would becomepresident. what held him back for a lot of his political career was he had polio, he was disabled. after he got in he didn't think -- he had to be talked into it by eleanornd lewis poll. to persuade him that he was able to do something as geling as run f governor. part of ithe was a natural born leader, very charismatic figure, likeo be in charge, i think the polio had a big effect. frances perkins talks about this in her oral history, which is 5,000 pages, it isorth rummaging through a little bit. she talks about, she knew fdr, they were social trends, traveled in the same circle, she didn't like him at all. she thought he was upper class, harvard kid who looked down his nose at people, then she got to know him again when she was lobbng the sta legisture for minimum wage and maximum our laws for women and he didn support her and she thought put down, he did his environmental stuff, he d

franklin roosevelt, his predecessor ranked third in the c-span poll, first in congressional relations which is interesting because his congressional relations were best during his first term when he had a huge, very supportive majority in both the house and the senate, but after 1937, with the failed court-packing case roosevelt got very little out of congress in terms of domestic legislation and in fact from 1937 on, democrats steadily lost seats in congress. between 1937 and roosevelt's death in 1945, democrats lost 92 seats in the house and 19 seats in the senate. they had a majority, but it was a very slim majority by the time truman came in. the president's congressional relations didn't begin or end with harry truman but in many ways he was an important transitional figure in this field. truman set out to regularize a lot of the things that franklin roosevelt had done on an ad hoc basis and that's why political scientists refer to truman's presidency as the institutionalized president -- that he was trying to depersonalize much of what roosevelt had done and set up mechanisms fo

teddy roosevelt, what a great president, "wilderness warrior." join us again monday for more "hardball." right now it's time for "the ed show" with ed schultz. >>> i'm ed schultz. this is "the ed show." good evening. live from 30 rock in new york, it's "the ed show" on msnbc. i'm lawrence o'donnell in for ed schultz who's gone fishing this week. he'll be back next week. more town hall and one new york congressman may have found the way to beat the mobs. congressman anthony winger joins me in just a minute. >>> will the anti-reform campaign unite the democrats? rahm emanuel wants liberal groups to lay off the blue dogs. will they follow the white house marching orders? >>> and 44 years ago, lyndon johnson got government-run, single-payer health carapaced by a wide margin. what can president obama learn from lbj? i'll ask joseph califano, a top aide to president johnson, in "the playbook." plus "ed-lines." the latest twist in the florida senate race. >>> first, tonight's "op ed." the angry mobs at health care town halls are getting angrier. fists a

that's something that happened with roosevelt.th social security, he was being battered from the republicans and from within his own party and he said, i'm drawing a line. i will not sign legislation that does not have the core values of what this is all about, and at the end of the day social security didn't pass because congress wanted it. it's because roosevelt forced it and demanded it. that's what obama has to do and we should point out that there may be a new fire lit under the base in this country because all of the protests are not antireform. for instance, robert wexler down in florida. >> right. >> supporters including a marching band showed up at congressman robert wexler's town hall in florida. so are the positive forces, have they been reignited and are we headed for a march on washington? what do you think? >> you can never underrate the appearance of the tuba, ed. when the tuba comes in you know you're talking serious business. here is the thing. at the end of the day, the public option has to be on the table and it

it's just an outrage. >> reporter: in severna park, roosevelt leftwich, abc 2 news. >>> columnist and former cnn crossfire co-host robert novak will be laid to rest. he died tuesday after a long battle with cancer. funeral services will be held right there in northwest d.c. novak sparked major controversy after revealing the identity of yia operative valerie plame. he retired last august. robert novak was 78 years old. >>> wal-mart is recalling more than a half million dvd players because they could overheat and burst into flames. we had 12 complaints filed so far. nobody's been injured. the dvd players were sold at wal-mart from january '06 to last month. $29. stop using the player immediately and return it to wal-mart and get a full refund. >>> an important recall for anyone with a baby in the house. parents, you are being warned about the simplicity bassinets. two infants were trapped and killed. if the develop coe flaps -- velcro flaps aren't done properly, it can be dangerous to your child. you can get a refund or store credit. >>> most public bathrooms are less than clean, but i

franklin roosevelt, his predecessor ranked third in the c-span poll, first in congressional relationshich is interesting because his congressional relations were best during his first term when he had a huge, very supportive majority in both the house and the senate, but after 1937, with the failed court-packing case roosevelt got very little out of congress in terms of domestic legislation and in fact from 1937 on, democrats steadily lost seats in congress. between 1937 and roosevelt's death in 1945, democrats lost 92 seats in the house and 19 seats in the senate. they had a majority, but it was a very slim majority by the time truman came in. the president's congressional relations didn't begin or end with harry truman but in many ways he was an important transitional figure in this field. truman set out to regularize a lot of the things that franklin roosevelt had done on an ad hoc basis and that's why political scientists refer to truman's presidency as the institutionalized president -- that he was trying to depersonalize much of what roosevelt had done and set up mechanisms for

to be more prepared, was a group of people, most of them republicans, many disciples of the roosevelt, who set up a volunteer military training camps. one was in new york, often elite college students of the day would spend their summers training military officers, many of them became military officers. after the war, the rotc as we know it today, traces its roots back to this movement. >> was there a grass-roots movement to get into the war? was the war popular before the americans got into it? >> the war was popular with some people but one of the things most people forget about world war i was it is very divisive, both entering the war and how to fight the war after it starts. a lot of that decision has been forgotten since then. >> where did your book, uncle sam wants you, come from? >> it started with a group of people, on a footnote of another book i found reference to called slacker rage. slacker was the slaying term in world war i for draft dodgers. slacker raids were carried out by a group of volunteers, mostly middle-aged men overdraft age who would go around in cities and s

reporting live, roosevelt leftwich, abc2 news. >>> 6:04. another major health story puts baltimore in the spotlight today. testing begins nationwide for a vaccine for the h1n1 virus and health officials at the university of maryland school of medicine will take part in these trials. young adults and seniors who volunteer will get the first doses of the vaccine and if it's safe the vaccine will then be tested on children. an official let us know that abc2, starting 7:00 this morning, "good morning america" will be live at the university of maryland school of medicine to report on the beginning of those human trials for the h1n1 vaccine. >>> steamy summer temperatures rushed to maryland. it's expected to be so bad the next couple days that baltimore city issued a code read heat alert through tomorrow. six cooling centers across the city opened yesterday. this one at the northern community action center was handing out water to help them cool off. >> drink plenty of fluids and try to stay cool and if you don't have to go outside don't go outsi

as roosevelt leftwich tells us they say the reason they are doing it is not to increase revenue, no,s to increase opportunity. >> reporter: think of it as an exercise in thriftiness. brian jackson and his wife has a reservation. they are already late. >> to pay $8 a day when i'll be here two hours? >> reporter: for a tourist or someone on business who needs to make a quick stop, the moderate humidity is great if you can get one. >> they are designed sore people coming here for shorter stays, looking to do business in the city can find a place to park. but right now we have people parking all day long, lots of people are doing that. >> reporter: the city parking authority is proposing a raise in metered parking rates initially to $1.50 in the central business district, an area bordered by several streets. it will cost $12 for eight hours, comparable to parking garages so frugal downtown people will get off the moderate -- meter. that would help jackson and others find parking. >> i typically go two, three times to find a space. i'll be in and out 15, 20 minutes, it will be more conven

eugenics was popular thought to woodrow wilson, teddy roosevelt and their advisors. in 1912, a year before he was president, new jersey's governor woodrow wilson created a board of examiners of feeble minded, epileptics and other defectives. und it, the state could determine when procreation is inadvisable like for criminals, prisoners, poor kids and the ill defined. other defectives, end quote. roosevelt's close advisor charles van highs said "he who thinks of himself not primarily but of his race and his future is the new patriot, end quote. former president roosevelt later endorsed madison grant's passing of "the great race" a book that lit hitler once referred to as his bible. what the textbooks ignore is that before the nazis took power, germans lagged behind americans an europeans in eugenics but world war i and the great flu pandemic turned doctors into social planners. hitler and the nazis took the logic of total health to totalitarian extremes making the central policy goal affecting marriage, medicine and more. the same year hitler joined the nazi party in

i'm afraid he has confused karl marx with theodore roosevelt.applause] that obscure republican president who sought and fought for a tax system based on ability to pay. theodore roosevelt was not karl- marx- marx, and the republican x scheme is not tax reform. we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for national health insurance. [applause] we must not surrender. we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bring corrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real controls over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of the family's wealth. [applause] the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives to catch a little cold, the capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. we

abc 2 news roosevelt leftwich joins us now with the latest. rosy? >> reporter: kelly, the federal funds will go to developing cleaner, greener technology for a rear drive vehicle. gm says it will provide more details in the future. but analysts say this could be the start of something big at that plant. right now the plant is only one of a handful that makes critical transmission parts for gm cars and trucks in the u.s., including parts for the company's hybrid and the highly touted bolt electric car scheduled to roll out next year. no comment today from plant officials or from the union representing the workers at the white marsh facility. but for folks who follow manufacturing in maryland, they're saying the allison plant already had a leg up. >> yeah, made an investment already. this local plant has been involved in everything from creating a product, the hybrid, which is sustainable and a green product, to being zero landfill free, and actually putting solar panels on the roof. >> reporter: any investment in the power train could trigger more in

abc 2's roosevelt leftwich tells us about cuts in state services that say many will hurt who need hope the most. >> reporter: the state has to do more with less. that's a fine thing to say if you're not the one who has to buy food and pay your bills with less. >> the price of everything is increasing. and i don't have any luxuries. so i don't have cable. i don't have things like that, because i really can't afford it. i really can't afford it. i'm bare bones already. >> reporter: but she considers herself lucky. it's a reduction in pay for her, but others won't be so fortunate. the biggest loss of jobs will come from mental health and hygiene, 175 jobs gone through layoff or vacancy. public safety and correction also lose 88 jobs, and the department of transportation will lose 66. and when you add in the losses from other departments through layoff and unfilled vacancy, 363 jobs will be eliminated. state employees say with fewer people, it will take longer to get things done. >> it would be a better idea to look at some places that aren't out in the public. the people who work the coun

roosevelt leftwich joins us with more. >> reporter: marybeth, we now know more about the one man police caught and how the city is going to respond to the hate crime. authorities say 28-year-old calvin lockner had a history of violence and tattoos that suggested a connection with white supremacist groups. they say lockner has a hitler tattoo on his stomach and other marks that show his membership in the aryan and hitler brotherhood. charging documents show lockner and at least two other men beat 76-year-old james privett tuesday morning. privot was knocked to the ground and beat when a bat while the attackers shouted racial slurs. >> we have some basic information as it relates to the other two suspects. we are gaining more information, including anonymous citizen tips. >> reporter: today the police commissioner, the mayor and other civic leaders said they were making a stand against this hate crime. they say this type of thing has no place in baltimore, or anywhere else, and that a person, who matter who they are has the right to follow the pursuit peacefully without being attacked. >>

as roosevelt leftwich reports, some of the cuts are causing an outcry. >> so the secretary's agenda -- >> reporter: it was more formality than anything else. the $450 million in cuts will affect state services. the governor says it's just about getting through the recession. >> if you look at the various ships and the fleet of the the united states of america, there is not a stronger ship than the uss maryland for getting us through to the other side of this storm. >> reporter: she is going to sail with a lot less wind behind it. the biggest losers state employees. 204 jobs cut, and 159 that won't be filled, saving $72 million. community-based care providers for health care services, $21 million in payment reductions. university of maryland system is losing $30 million, and reduced operating expenses and fund transfers. and local governments more than $200 million in aid for everything from highway funding to police and community colleges. such big hits could mean a reduction in local services, and eventually increase in costs for higher education. the board says it will look at every

and as abc 2 news roosevelt leftwich tells us, the reason they're doing it is not to increase revenue, but to increase opportunity. >> reporter: think of it as an exercise in thriftiness. brian and his wife have a new reservation at the restaurant. they're already late. >> to pay $9 a day when i'm going to be here for two hours. >> reporter: for a tourist or someone on business who needs to make a quick stop, a fook few bucks at a meter is great, if you can get one. >> they're designed so people coming down here for shorter stays, looking to do business in the city can find a place to park. but right now we do have people parking all day long. lots of people parking all day long. >> city parking authority is proposing a raise and metered parking rates initially to $1.50 in the central business district, an area bordered by mulberry, president street and martin luther king, keen highway. it would cost $12 for 8 hours, comparable to parking garages so frugal downtown workers would get off the meter. that would turn over more spots frequently to help guys like jackson and other motorists

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theodore roosevelt was not karl marx, and the republican tax scheme is not tax reform.plause] finally, we cannot have a fair prosperity in isolation from a fair society. so i will continue to stand for a national health insurance. [applause] we must not surrender to the relentless medical inflation that can bankrupt almost anyone and that may soon break the budgets of government at every level. let us insist on real control over what doctors and hospitals can charge, and let us resolve that the state of a family's health shall never depend on the size of a family's wealth. [applause] the president, the vice president, the members of congress have a medical plan that meets their needs in full, and whenever senators and representatives catch a little cold, the capitol physician will see them immediately, treat them promptly, fill a prescription on the spot. we do not get a bill even if we ask for it, and when do you think was the last time a member of congress asked for a bill from the federal government? [applause] i say again, as i have before, if health insurance is go